Fence



(N0 Modl.)

W. W. CAMPBELL.

FENCE.

Patented Mar. 19, 18 89.

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WILLIAM IV. CAMPBELL, OF OAMBRIA, INDIANA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,833, dated March19, 1889.

Application filed August 22, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, W'ILLIAM \V CAMPBELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Cambria, in the county of Clinton and State ofIndiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fences, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, durable, andportable fence which may be readily erected an d taken apart; and itconsists in a certain novel construction and arrangement of devices,fully set forth hereinafter in connection with. the accon1pa nyingdrawings, and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of theimproved fence. Fig. 2 is a side view of aportion of the same, partly insection.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A A designate small transversesills or blocks, which are arranged on or in the ground, with theirupper sides projecting slightly above the surface of the ground, and inthe said sills or blocks are formed sockets a (I.

The posts B B are provided at their lower ends with slightly-reducedextensions h b, which are seated in these sockets a, a, and G C aresmall blocks secured on the sides of the posts, near their upper ends,which are provided with depressions or sockets c (1.

The separable detachable pan els D .I) consist of the horizontal rails(Z (l, to which are se-- lower rails, (7, are also provided with depend.

ing pins 6, which engage in similar sockets, c, in the sills or blocksad acent to the lower end of the post.

els are extended upwardly, and their ends are connected by thelongitudinal wire, which aids in strengthening the separate panels.

As will be readily seen, the fence is constructed as follows: The sillsor blocks are The end pickets of the pan- 5 Serial No. 283,409. (Nomodel.)

first arranged at the proper intervals, determined by the lengths of thepanels. The lower ends of the posts are then seated in the sockets (a inthe sills or blocks, after which the depending pins on the ends of thehorizontal rails of the panels are engaged in the sockets c and c, whichare formed, respectively, in the blocks C and the sills or blocks. Theends of the horizontal rails of adjoining panels bear against eachother, and thus brace the fence longitudinally, and the fence is bracedlaterally, from the fact that the ends of the bottom rails of the panelsrest on the sills or blocks and bear against the sides of the post.

It will be obvious that the fence is simple and is easily erected, andwhen it is desired to move it the panels are readily removed andreplaced.

A further ad vantage of this fence,when used on farms to ineloscpastures, is that the panels may be readily removed to form a passage topermit the entrance or exitof cattle or stock.

Having thus described my invention, I claim In a portable fence, thecombination of the sill placed on the ground transversely to the line ofthe fence and having sockets a and c, the posts having reduced lowerends secured in the sockets a, and having blocks 0 attached to theirfront sides and provided with recesses r, and the panels composed ofpickets connected by horizontal upper and lower rails, which rest,respectively, upon the blocks 0 and the sills, and are provided withdownwardly-extending pins entering the sockets c, said horizontal railsbeing of such length that the ends of the rails of adjoining panelsshall abut against each other, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

'WILLIAM \V. CAMPBELL.

\Vitnesses:

J AMES D. GREGG, F. H. PALMER.

